Jeanie Hannaman

By Joseph Reciniello, Catholic Exchange - The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it.

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - A doctor who came to one of my lectures recently told me of a problem within the medical profession: with some noble exceptions, the general practitioners know less and less about almost everything, and the specialists know more and more about almost nothing. (He’s a specialist himself.) I don’t know if this is broadly true in medicine. I do know that it seems to describe a great deal about what goes on in the modern world.

By Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine - On June 22, a suicide bomber attacked the Greek Orthodox Church of the Prophet Elias in the Damascus suburb of Dweila, killing 25 members of the congregation. The Syrian government blamed the attack on the Islamic State, which has been murdering Christians for well over a decade. Though many prominent corporate media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post covered the story, the incident elicited little commentary on the plight of Christians in their ancestral homelands, despite the fact that Christians are suffering such severe persecution ...